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When it comes to global warming and climate change, the recent “Values Voters” conference represented a hot spot of anti-science syndrome. Take a look at this “Breakout session” with a talk by Dr. Calvin Beisner in the “Cabinet Room”. GLOBAL WARMING HYSTERIA: THE NEW FACE OF THE “PRO-DEATH” AGENDA – CABINET ROOM Why did the […]

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“We’re screwed” is the banner headline in today’s New York Post focused on Climate Change, highlighting the risks that study (74 page pdf) after study after study show New York faces in coming years and decades in the face of unchecked catastrophic climate change. The New York City Panel on Climate Change, led by an […]

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Another guest post from the extremely thoughtful and knowledgeable BruceMcF, offering a vision for rail transport that would be well worth embracing. On Thursday, djrekluse wrote: Despite considerable tension and even aversion in green communities to the subject, we cannot talk about “going green” without making it a discussion about growth through various hierarchies of […]

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That title provides a reasonable summation of Estimating U.S. Government Subsidies to Energy Sources: 2002-2008, a report released today by the Environmental Law Institute and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars looking at U.S. subsidies for energy, the relationship of fossil fuel to renewable energy subsidies, and how this relates to foreign production of […]

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Well, while one might not be able to be President of the earth’s “friends” (which we would hope would encompass essentially all humanity), there is Friends of the Earth, which is truly a top-notch environmental group, often carrying substance into the policy discussion far beyond the weight of its budget. (Perhaps the motto could be, […]

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Among the energy holy grails out there are paths to take trash flows and turn them into value. Waste-to-fuel options range from methane digesters to biomass waste power plants to ways to turn trash dump streams into power.  Envion, as reported in today’s Washington Post, has put up a demonstration facility at the Montgomery County, […]

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The falsehoods, errors, and misrepresentations in discussions of climate change and energy issues within the US debate are almost too numerous to count. They range from the most shallow (“CO2 is necessary for life, how can you call it to pollution.”) to “reports” and books of 100s of pages which require close reading of the […]

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Transportation (DOT) today released proposed rules for implementating the increase in CAFE standards, beyond the Congressional mandate, as announced this past May. In short, this deal between the Obama Administration and the auto industry accelerates the improvement in light vehicle fuel efficiency across the fleet average (the […]

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Tommaso Boggia provides, in this guest post from Campus Progress, some thoughts from the sand box that Barack Obama might find useful to deal with Glenn Beck and other little people throwing tantrums running around kicking sand in people’s faces. On November 4th 2008, young people propelled President Obama to victory with a clear mandate […]

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Last week, the New York Senate passed legislation to take revenues from New York’s ‘cap and tax’ on carbon emissions and leverage these funds into the private financing market to make energy efficiency improvements more affordable and more accessible to New York’s homeowners. Passed unanimously in the New York House, a Republican Senator played a […]

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